I just got back from my morning weighted walk and figured it was time to do something I haven’t done in a few years: dump out my everyday carry bag and go through it piece by piece.
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The Bag
It’s a Vertx Urban Ghost 10L Sling. This is what I grab unless I need to bring my laptop. My 14-inch laptop doesn’t fit. An iPad does, and that’s about the limit.
The layout is simple. A pocket for a water bottle or coffee. A front pouch. A main compartment. A small lined slot up top where I keep sunglasses.
The bottom of the bag is the concealment compartment. It’s loop-lined, so a holster with hook Velcro on the back sticks right in. In the video it’s empty. I was carrying on my body.
What’s on My Body
Right now that’s a Springfield Armory Hellcat Pro with a Holosun SCS Carry green optic. I carry it in a PHLster Enigma with the Sport Belt, and I’m pretty sure the large wedge.
Front Pouch
This one opens wide. First thing out is a SureFire Stiletto Pro. I always carry a light.
Next to it is a Leatherman Skeletool CX. I’ve carried one of these for more years than I can count. The knife opens one-handed, which is a must for me. It has pliers and a bit driver, and there’s a slot in the other handle for a hex bit. There’s a carabiner and bottle opener on it too, though I don’t think I’ve ever used the carabiner.
Riding with it is a RAE Gear sheath made specifically for the Leatherman bit system. It holds the Leatherman Bit Kit and the Leatherman Ratchet Driver, so I’ve got a full set of bits and a ratchet without carrying a separate tool roll.
I don’t usually carry a spare magazine on my body. If I’ve got the bag, a spare goes in it. Mine sits in a NeoMag Gen 2 magnetic holster I’ve had for years. The magnet keeps the mag put, and it slides out fast when I need it.
Also in there: a pen and some hand sanitizer. The small top compartment holds my keys, with an AirTag on the ring, and a ChapStick.
Main Compartment
The main compartment opens like a clamshell. There’s a sleeve that fits my iPad, or I’ll throw a Kindle in instead.
I always have a notebook with me. It’s a Traveler’s Notebook, the Midori one, with a few inserts: one for journaling, one that’s mostly to-do lists, and one for lists I need to refer back to. The pen is The Burwell from The James Brand.
And then there’s the medical.
Medical
My kit is a Velocity EDC Panel from Live The Creed. It’s a tear-away panel with Velcro on the back, and there’s a loop field at the bottom of the main compartment where it fits just about perfectly. If I switch bags, I grab the whole panel and move it.
Here’s what’s on it: a tourniquet in the back sleeve, trauma shears, a vented chest seal, QuikClot hemostatic gauze, a SWAT-T that can double as a pressure dressing, extra gauze, compressed z-fold gauze, and a pair of gloves.
Live The Creed’s site shows the panel as sold out as I write this. I’ve linked it anyway in case it comes back, and there’s a link for the trauma supplies in the gear list below.
The one thing that isn’t in the bag
My CCW Safe membership. They’re a sponsor of mine, and I’m a member. If you’re going to carry concealed, you need some kind of self-defense coverage, and CCW Safe is who I chose.
What sold me is knowing somebody is going to have my back from the start of an incident and see it all the way through to the end. They offer individual and family plans, along with plans for law enforcement, first responders and military. If you don’t have coverage yet, go look at the plans and get some.
